Pool vs Null - What's the difference?
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A small and rather deep collection of (usually) fresh water, as one supplied by a spring, or occurring in the course of a stream; a reservoir for water.
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A small body of standing or stagnant water; a puddle.
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A swimming pool.
A supply of resources.
(uncountable) A game at billiards, in which each of the players stakes a certain sum, the winner taking the whole; also, in public billiard rooms, a game in which the loser pays the entrance fee for all who engage in the game; a game of skill in pocketing the balls on a pool table.
* (rfdate) (William Makepeace Thackeray):
In rifle shooting, a contest in which each competitor pays a certain sum for every shot he makes, the net proceeds being divided among the winners.
Any gambling or commercial venture in which several persons join.
The stake played for in certain games of cards, billiards, etc.; an aggregated stake to which each player has contributed a share; also, the receptacle for the stakes.
A combination of persons contributing money to be used for the purpose of increasing or depressing the market price of stocks, grain, or other commodities; also, the aggregate of the sums so contributed.
(rail transport) A mutual arrangement between competing lines, by which the receipts of all are aggregated, and then distributed pro rata according to agreement.
(legal) An aggregation of properties or rights, belonging to different people in a community, in a common fund, to be charged with common liabilities.
to put together; contribute to a common fund, on the basis of a mutual division of profits or losses; to make a common interest of; as, the companies pooled their traffic
* (rfdate) Grant:
to combine or contribute with others, as for a commercial, speculative, or gambling transaction
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
Something that has no force or meaning.
(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
absent or non-existent
(mathematics) of the null set
(mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
(genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
As nouns the difference between pool and null
is that pool is a (l) (male person ) while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.pool
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) pool, pole, pol, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- the pools of Solomon
- Charity will hardly water the ground where it must first fill a pool .
- The sleepy pool above the dam.
- The filthy mantled pool beyond your cell.
Derived terms
* swimming pool * tidepool * whirlpoolDescendants
* Japanese:Etymology 2
(etyl) , which has been explained anecdotally as deriving from an old informal betting game in France - 'jeu de poule' - Game of Chicken (or Hen, literally) in which poule became synonymous with the combined money pot claimed by the winner)Noun
(en noun)- He plays pool at the billiard houses.
- The pool took all the wheat offered below the limit.
- He put $10,000 into the pool .
Derived terms
* blind pool * bumper pool * carpool * cesspool * dirty pool * gene pool * kelly pool * motor pool * pool hall * pool table * poolroom * tidal pool * vanpoolVerb
(en verb)- Finally, it favors the pooling of all issues.
Anagrams
* * * 1000 English basic words ----null
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.